Nadiya Svirsky
Artist member since 2021
Toronto , Ontario
Nadiya Svirsky is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in printmaking, painting and sculpture.
Born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine in 1996, Svirsky has been living, learning and working in Toronto, Canada since 2002. Svirsky’s main preoccupations lie in themes of memory, in-betweenness, heritage, and depictions of moments that connote the passage of time. Svirsky’s creative practice (mainly comprised of multi-plate etching, oil painting and lithography) is intrinsically tied to the process-based nature of the works that she makes - working and reworking images in variation through painting and printmaking mirrors the mental and emotional processes of retrospection itself. Through these processes, Svirsky explores the tension created by trying to depict or preserve something so elusive as memory.
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Favourite medium
It is difficult to pick a favourite, but in the past few years I've really become enthralled by printmaking, particularly stone lithograpghy and copper etching. I love the technical aspects of these processes and I find that printmaking lends itself very well to exploring subject matter through manipulation of varied layers and editions of a single image.
Beverage of choice
London Fog!
Favourite book
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut.
Favourite artist(s) right now
Sara-Vide Ericson, Anselm Keifer, Hilma af Kint, Stephen Andrews, Adam Lee, David Altmejd, Peter Doig.
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Accolades
2021
Education
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